nightsky

Oooh I wish this project a lot of success!

Zed is interesting but the project’s very pro-AI stance keeps me away from it. So a fork without that stuff is great, hope that works out longer-term.

ranked according to how much AI is in your code

Truly the greatest idea since “rank developers by lines of code written”.

404 Media: Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox

Yue also shared screenshots of her WhatsApp chat with the OpenClaw agent, where she implores it to “not do that,” “stop, don’t do anything,” and “STOP OPENCLAW.”

This is very serious computing and we must all take it very seriously.

This was very enjoyable! Actually was over too quickly, would have liked to hear you two talk about AI stuff more.

When Woke 2 comes

ooh, please tell me there’s a release date already

Thanks everyone for the replies <3 Guess I should make an account there after all… bleeeh :/

Honest question, since I’m not on linkedin (and kinda looking for a new job): does it really help anyone find a job? It has been my impression from the outside that it’s mostly empty drivel.

I’m confused that anyone thinks that the world needs another linkedin…

Wow. The mental contortion required to come up with that idea is too much for me to think of a sneer.

When all the worst things come together: ransomware probably vibe-coded, discards private key, data never recoverable

During execution, the malware regenerates a new RSA key pair locally, uses the newly generated key material for encryption, and then discards the private key.

Halcyon assesses with moderate confidence that the developers may have used AI-assisted tooling, which could have contributed to this implementation error.

Source

Claim 1: Every regular LLM user is undergoing “AI psychosis”. Every single one of them, no exceptions.

I wouldn’t go as far as using the “AI psychosis” term here, I think there is more than a quantitative difference. One is influence, maybe even manipulation, but the other is a serious mental health condition.

I think that regular interaction with a chatbot will influence a person, just like regular interaction with an actual person does. I don’t believe that’s a weakness of human psychology, but that it’s what allows us to build understanding between people. But LLMs are not people, so whatever this does to the brain long term, I’m sure it’s not good. Time for me to be a total dork and cite an anime quote on human interaction: “I create them as they create me” – except that with LLMs, it actually goes only in one direction… the other direction is controlled by the makers of the chatbots. And they have a bunch of dials to adjust the output style at any time, which is an unsettling prospect.

while atrophying empathy

This possibility is to me actually the scariest part of your post.

Have a quick recovery! It sucks that society has collectively given up on trying to mitigate its spread.

Are you trying to say that you are not regularly thinking about the meta level of evidence convergence procedures?

The AI craze might end up killing graphics card makers:

Zotac SK’s message: “(this) current situation threatens the very existence of (add-in-board partners) AIBs and distributors.”

The current situation is so serious that it is worrisome for the future existence of graphics card manufacturers and distributors. They announced that memory supply will not be sufficient and that GPU supply will also be reduced.

Curiously, Zotac Korea has included lowly GeForce RTX 5060 SKUs in its short list of upcoming “staggering” price increases.

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I wonder if the AI companies realize how many people will be really pissed off at them when so many tech-related things become expensive or even unavailable, and everyone will know that it’s only because of useless AI data centers?

Bitcoin jesus

I thought you were making a sneer, but then it’s an actual name

If you watch the video, your brain will leak out your ears. But we watched it so you don’t have to.

Thank you for the invaluable service.

A while ago I wanted to make a doctor appointment, so I called them and was greeted by a voice announcing itself as “Aaron”, an AI assistant, and that I should tell it what I want. Oh, and it mentioned some URL for their privacy policy. I didn’t say a word and hung up and called a different doctor, where luckily I was greeted by a human.

I’m a bit horrified that this might spread and in the future I’d have to tell medical details to LLMs to get appointments at all.

There’s an article about it at 404 media now. A few quotes from the founder guy:

“[…] I think it would be foolish to think that there is a future where ChatGPT doesn’t come in your glasses.”

“We want to make everybody use AI. We are true AI maximalists.”

“Entire school systems will be gone. The entire K-12 education. […]"

And he gets millions of investment… just deranged late-stage bubble stuff. It’s sad to think how much good $5.3 million could do, e.g. for actual education, and instead it’s blasted away for creating such garbage.

It really sucks so much how many coders embrace it. At my work, there is the looming introduction of code LLMs very soon, and I’m anxious to learn how many of my colleagues will happily use it, and the consequences it will have for me to deal with the results (and generally, how it will make me feel to work in an environment where these tools are embraced). I was hoping that the corporate bureaucracy would be slow enough that the AI bubble collapses before it’s allowed to use the tools, but unfortunately management put a lot of pressure behind it and it all went faster than expected :(

404 media: I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can’t Be Bothered

It’s a service that makes an AI voice chatbot call your parents daily, so you don’t have to, and then it even sends you a notification to your phone with an AI summary of what your parent told the AI.

I really didn’t think that people can come up with new AI-based ideas anymore that would astonish me, but there, I was wrong, they did it. This is so cold and fundamentally alienating to me, it reminds me of that recently much-quoted Miyazaki phrase, “an insult to life itself”.